Fly-screen.



No. 627,588. Patented June 27, I899.

A. 8. MILES.

FLY SCREEN.

(Application filed Aug. 30, 71897.) (No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet I.

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No. 627,588. Patented June 27,. I899. A; 8. MILES.

FLY SCREEN.

(Applicafion filed Aug. 80, 1897.) (No Model) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANNIE SARAH MILES, OF OROMOCTO, CANADA.

FLY-SCREEN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 627,588, dated June 27, 1899.

Application filed August 30,1897. .Serial No. 650,032. (No model.)

wick, Canada, have invented certain new and 1 useful Improvements in Fly Screens, (for which I have obtained Canadian Patent No. 51,577 and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to fly-screens for windows and doors; and it consists in the novel.

construction of the same, as hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figurel is a cross-section through a portion of the fly-screen. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section taken on the line a; 00 in Fig. 1. Fig. '3 is a perspective View of a portion of the screen.

A is the screen, which is made of Wiregauze.

'13 is a series of cones molded in the gauze and projecting outwardly on one side of it. These cones have openings 1) at their apices just large enough for a fly to pass through.

0 is a second series of cones, which are molded in the gauze and arranged alternately of the cones B and upon a plane parallel to them.

The cones C have imperforate apices and project rearwarclly on the opposite side of the gauze from the cones B. The cones B project outward and the cones 0 project inward,

' and they are arranged alternately in rows on the screen.

When any alights on the outer surface of the screen, it enters the imperforate cones and is prevented from passing through the screen. When a fly alights on the inner surface of the screen, it passes through the cones B and cannot pass again through the holes b.

The flies in the cones 0 outside the screen serve to attract the flies inside the room to come and settle on the screen, so that the room is soon cleared of flies.

What I claim is 1. A fiy-escape having a series of integral cone-shaped projections extending outwardly, each of said projections being provided with an opening at its apex, and also having a series of imperforate integral cone shaped projections extending inwardly, said inwardly-extending projections being arranged alternately with said outwardly-ex tending projections, substantially as de scribed.

2. A fly-escape, having integral cone-shaped projections, extending outwardly, said projections being arranged in series vertically and horizontally, and also having integral imperforate cone-shaped projections extending inwardly arranged in series, said series of inwardly-extending projections being ar ranged alternately with said series of outwardly-extending projections, substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two witnesses.

- ANNIE SARAH MILES.

I Vitnesses:

B. M. MCLELLAN, A WESLEY VANWART. 

